Oscar Wilde: Frases em inglês

Oscar Wilde era Escritor, poeta e dramaturgo britânico de origem irlandesa. Frases em inglês.
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Oscar Wilde citar: “Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”

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Oscar Wilde livro O Retrato de Dorian Gray

Fonte: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”

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Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance

Fonte: A Woman of No Importance

“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”

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Oscar Wilde livro O Retrato de Dorian Gray

Fonte: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.”

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Oscar Wilde livro O Retrato de Dorian Gray

Mrs. Arbuthnot http://books.google.com/books?id=RHkWAAAAYAAJ&amp;q=%22Children+begin+by+loving+their+parents+after+a+time%22+%22they+judge+them+rarely+if+ever+do+they+forgive+them%22&amp;pg=PA187#v=onepage, Act IV <br class="br">A Woman of No Importance (1893) <br class="br">Variante: Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. <br class="br">Fonte: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune … to lose both seems like carelessness.”

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Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Lady Bracknell, Act I
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!”

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Oscar Wilde livro The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Pt. I, st. 7
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
Fonte: The Ballad Of Reading Gaol

“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”

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A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)

“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.”

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“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being”

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“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”

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“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.”

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Oscar Wilde livro O Retrato de Dorian Gray

Fonte: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”

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Oscar Wilde livro O Retrato de Dorian Gray

Variante: One of the great secrets of life. Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense and discover too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Fonte: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”

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Oscar Wilde livro O Retrato de Dorian Gray

Fonte: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”

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Oscar Wilde livro O Retrato de Dorian Gray

Fonte: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”

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Oscar Wilde livro O Retrato de Dorian Gray

Fonte: The Picture of Dorian Gray